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The Story of the High Lifter Water Pump
Many years ago, a woman
bought a beautiful piece of
land on the top of a hill.
The view was great –- but
the only water available
was in a spring far below
her home site. She asked
her neighbors for advice,
but they were all using
gasoline powered pumps, which
were all that was available at that
time for land which was off the grid.
She loved her land but was not looking
forward to constantly having to hike downhill
to fuel the pump. And she didn’t move to the
country just to have to hear a noisy pump running.
And she also didn’t want to have to worry about fire
danger.
Her brother just happened to be a Physics Major at UC Berkeley,
so she thought maybe he’d have some ideas. Well, he thought about
the situation and put his physics knowledge to work. He realized that
he needed a source of energy to run the pump which wasn’t fuel based, or even solar
based, since the spring was in a deep forest. He knew that water, under pressure,
had energy. If he could somehow use water pressure from the spring to run the pump
motor.....
Then he flashed on the idea of the “Hydraulic Lever”, a basic principle of physics
discovered by Blaise Pascal in 1652. He laid out a pipe going downhill from the spring,
filled it with water from the spring, then measured the pressure at the bottom of the
pipe. Then he knew he had his energy source! The water pressure could be used to
run pistons back and forth, acting as the pump’s motor. These pistons then push on
smaller pistons, which pump the water uphill.
Based on these discoveries, he built the first prototype of the High Lifter Water Pump,
installed it, and it worked! His sister finally had water at her hilltop home, using a
pump that worked 24/7 with minimal maintenance and no fuel needed. Then, some
of the neighbors wanted these new pumps, too. That’s when the High Lifter Water
Pump went into production. Soon after, it became very popular in mountainous areas
of Northern California. Now High Lifters are in use in many other parts of the world.
These simple, low tech pumps are suitable wherever there are mountains and water.
If you are thinking about buying a water pump for your homestead, farm, or village
water system, the following pages have important information which will help you
decide if a High Lifter Water Pump is right for you.
www.highlifterpumpservice.com
www.humboldtpowerandwater.com